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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1478/
- Published: 2019-06-11T18:15:51.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-12T20:56:46.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: Blog, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

commemorate (verb) – 1\. To honour the memory of (a person or event, for example), especially with a ceremony.  
2\. To serve as a memorial to.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/commemorate?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : When you remember something, you are mindful of it. It’s appropriate, therefore, that commemorate and other related memory-associated words (including memorable, memorial, remember, and memory itself) come from the Latin root memor, meaning “mindful.” Some distant older relatives are Old English gemimor (“well-known”), Greek merm?ra (“care”), and Sanskrit smarati (“he remembers”). English speakers have been marking the memory of important events with commemorate since the late 16th century.